So sad! Mayor Keith Wilson and Chief Day are too feeble to stand up to the bigots and radicals in Portland so they let you do it. I wish you the best Jessie…I truly do but let's face it voters here support this crap. And it's only gonna get worse as people like you and me say screw it and move OUT of Portland.
Allen, I guess you're fine with terrorists vandalizing public figures homes undermining their safety, attacking their business. You treat it as such a cute little nuisance. We get it, you hate Jessie Burke, but perhaps you could stop being such an obvious dick?
Jessie Burke is a true hero! I am broken hearted for her and about her lack of support from this news source. Alan, you are doing the civilized residents of Portland a great injustice by not crying from your bully pulpit for swift and severe punishment for anyone who harms others or their property over a political difference of opinion. There are typically 10% of a population who will sacrifice themselves for the good of others and an even smaller percentage who have the courage to stand up and state their case in the face of hostile opposition.
The cowardly acts of the youth hiding behind their black masks and under their black hoodies are the product of poor parenting and substandard education, both of which are meant to prepare us to disagree with others without being disrespectful and disagreeable! We need bravery from people like you Alan, bravery to stand up, name names, publish photographs, and call for friends and neighbors to turn against these cowardly criminals.
In order for us all to live in peace with unquestioned freedom, we must follow the path that history has proven to work. That path is one with clear guidelines and boundaries, codified in law, and enforced with certain, unbiased, justice!
Jesse Burke is an amazing woman whose dedication to Portland’s recovery from Portlandia to once again becoming a city that works, is unparalleled. The treatment she has received for speaking truth to power is another vindication for those of us who are convinced that Multnomah County is in a Doom Loop.
For the longest time though, the city has been passive about violations by ruling class, like politically connected city government contractors. For example, if your permit says authorization to use street parking spaces from 8AM to 4PM, M-F, it is not a legal storage to store your $100,000 excavator for free on the street over the weekend on the street where it says "2 hours, pay to park"
City Government PBOT's public works contractors do such things all the time. PBOT has not complied with a single request to summarily abate their contractor's illegally stored equipment even though there's no doubt contractor won't abandon their six figure priced heavy equipment if towed away, thus, absolutely certain that they will pay to get it out.
So, it is ok when city's crony public works contractors violate permitting rules, but not when others do it? Any permit fees illegally skirted by for-profit contractors of PBOT means the amount saved is the amount of unjust enrichment going into that company's profit.
We need more Jessie Burkes in the city to fight back against the thugs, swindlers, con artists, and evil doers. A functional city has laws, order, civility, truth, and beauty.
Allan, your front page hit job on Jessie and her husband (in the last but one issue of the Northwest Examiner, "Power Couple Sics Cavalry" and yes, the dogs being "sicced" were, in your mind the police!) must have hugely contributed to Jessie's discouragement. What a shame! Although people rallied to their defense on the letters page in the current issue, your insistence on having the last, self-justifying word on that page is reprehensible.
100%!!! The city needs to pull up their big boy pants.
I feel Jessie Burke. In one way or another many of us are doing the city's dirty work - Portland, you better listen up.
So sad! Mayor Keith Wilson and Chief Day are too feeble to stand up to the bigots and radicals in Portland so they let you do it. I wish you the best Jessie…I truly do but let's face it voters here support this crap. And it's only gonna get worse as people like you and me say screw it and move OUT of Portland.
Allen, I guess you're fine with terrorists vandalizing public figures homes undermining their safety, attacking their business. You treat it as such a cute little nuisance. We get it, you hate Jessie Burke, but perhaps you could stop being such an obvious dick?
Jessie Burke is a true hero! I am broken hearted for her and about her lack of support from this news source. Alan, you are doing the civilized residents of Portland a great injustice by not crying from your bully pulpit for swift and severe punishment for anyone who harms others or their property over a political difference of opinion. There are typically 10% of a population who will sacrifice themselves for the good of others and an even smaller percentage who have the courage to stand up and state their case in the face of hostile opposition.
The cowardly acts of the youth hiding behind their black masks and under their black hoodies are the product of poor parenting and substandard education, both of which are meant to prepare us to disagree with others without being disrespectful and disagreeable! We need bravery from people like you Alan, bravery to stand up, name names, publish photographs, and call for friends and neighbors to turn against these cowardly criminals.
In order for us all to live in peace with unquestioned freedom, we must follow the path that history has proven to work. That path is one with clear guidelines and boundaries, codified in law, and enforced with certain, unbiased, justice!
Jesse Burke is an amazing woman whose dedication to Portland’s recovery from Portlandia to once again becoming a city that works, is unparalleled. The treatment she has received for speaking truth to power is another vindication for those of us who are convinced that Multnomah County is in a Doom Loop.
For the longest time though, the city has been passive about violations by ruling class, like politically connected city government contractors. For example, if your permit says authorization to use street parking spaces from 8AM to 4PM, M-F, it is not a legal storage to store your $100,000 excavator for free on the street over the weekend on the street where it says "2 hours, pay to park"
City Government PBOT's public works contractors do such things all the time. PBOT has not complied with a single request to summarily abate their contractor's illegally stored equipment even though there's no doubt contractor won't abandon their six figure priced heavy equipment if towed away, thus, absolutely certain that they will pay to get it out.
So, it is ok when city's crony public works contractors violate permitting rules, but not when others do it? Any permit fees illegally skirted by for-profit contractors of PBOT means the amount saved is the amount of unjust enrichment going into that company's profit.
We need more Jessie Burkes in the city to fight back against the thugs, swindlers, con artists, and evil doers. A functional city has laws, order, civility, truth, and beauty.
Allan, your front page hit job on Jessie and her husband (in the last but one issue of the Northwest Examiner, "Power Couple Sics Cavalry" and yes, the dogs being "sicced" were, in your mind the police!) must have hugely contributed to Jessie's discouragement. What a shame! Although people rallied to their defense on the letters page in the current issue, your insistence on having the last, self-justifying word on that page is reprehensible.